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What Roles Are Available for My PNR Research Team?

PNR projects use three distinct roles — PI, Admin/Data Steward, and Member — and they do not overlap. If a single person needs to act in more than one role, they must be added explicitly to each. This page summarizes what each role can and cannot do.

For PNR projects there are three project roles. These roles do not overlap, and if a person has multiple roles in a project, they must be explicitly added in each role.

Project PI

Generally a faculty member, the project PI is the person accountable for oversight of the research data and named appropriately in the relevant project protocols.

Note

This role does not grant rights to Research Toolkits to manage the project or to the project itself to work with the data.

Project Admin(s) / Data Steward

Project Admin(s) are responsible for managing the administrative tasks associated with the PNR project. These include:

  • Adding and removing members on the project in accordance with associated protocols (attestation required)
  • Approving all data transfers out of the project (self-service for results, all other types through a request, attestation required)
  • Self-service add storage over 200GB to the project with a fund code
  • Specifying the organization of the project data within the file storage. If the project admin is also a member, this can be done directly by the project admin.

Access scope

This role grants rights to Research Toolkits to manage the project, but does not provision access to compute associated with the project or directly allow for access to data.

Project Member(s)

Project Member(s) work directly with the data on the project to complete the tasks associated with the research. They work independently with compute resources and are provided working storage space for their tasks.

They also may self-service request results exports from the project.

Approval required

A project admin must approve member-initiated results export requests.